The Gist ✓

@PescaGist · New York, NY · joined 29 Sep 2006

Your PM daily news podcast, serving daily @pescami Join Mike's Substack: https://t.co/NrH9nmWiMa

11 496Followers

1 276Following

5 861Posts total

24.9KViews on collected posts

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The Gist ✓@PescaGist10 Jul

Today on The Gist, its Funny You Should Mention with stand-up comedian @JeffArcuri_, whose crowd-work proficiency anchors his new Netflix special. Arcuri counters comedy purists by framing audience interaction as a structured illusion, detailing how his early years navigating htt 657 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist9 Jul

@PescaGist @pescami Dude, you are truly special and I will sadly miss The Gist. It's a sign of the times...and the times ain't good for informed reason. 😒 Bravo, Mike Pesca! 👏 339 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist9 Jul

@pescami https://t.co/hektg2AJxt 662 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist9 Jul

The Gist is the longest-running daily news and analysis podcast to date - but today it's ending, as Mike Pesca says goodbye. Over 12 years, podcasting became an industry, society became more fractured, and our attention became more fragmented. But one thing never changed: good h 12.8K views · 70 likes · 7 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist1 Jul

@PescaGist @pescami The Gist and @wethefifth are the only two podcasts in my rotation that I religiously will not miss. Really disappointed to hear Mike is stepping away. 192 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist1 Jul

@PescaGist Thanks for all the great episodes. 177 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist30 Jun

Today on HowTO!: Ofra splits her time among a number of hobbies in her retirement, but she wants to stop feeling rudderless and find the focus necessary to write a book of observational humor based on her twenty-year career as a psychotherapist. Enter @DavidEpstein, workplace htt 481 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist30 Jun

@PescaGist Bummer. One of the first podcasts I regularly listened to. 368 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist30 Jun

After 12 years + 2 months Mike will be stepping away from The Gist. As he explains in yesterday's episode, podcasting has become video, algorithms, and clips becoming more important than shows. These are the realities of the attention economy, but not really where he wanted to 8.8K views · 24 likes · 9 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

The Gist ✓@PescaGist26 Jun

Today on Funny You Should Mention: Graham Kay. He discusses his moving new stand-up special, Pete and Me, which maps his life alongside his autistic brother. Kay shares the chaotic story of his 2011 deportation from America after a sarcastic graffiti arrest in Brooklyn, detailing 395 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views438this account999median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.81%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.65%this account1.92%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	438	999	0.44×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.81%	3.62%	1.05×
Engagement rate	0.65%	1.92%	0.34×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

39526 Jun

8.8K30 Jun

368

481

1771 Jul

192

12.8K9 Jul

662

339

65710 Jul

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.00%26 Jun

0.53%30 Jun

1.63%

0.00%

2.26%1 Jul

3.12%

0.77%9 Jul

0.45%

2.36%

0.46%10 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.92%.

What the audience does

Likes67.0%122 in total

Reposts8.8%16 in total

Replies18.7%34 in total

Quotes1.6%3 in total

Bookmarks3.8%7 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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